Elijah atkins



(No Model.)

B. ATKINS. FASTENING FOR BRACELETS AND SGARERINGS,

Patented May 9, 1882.

INVENTORi 6 y WITNESSES:

' ATTORNEYS! 'NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIJAH ATKINS, OF BIRMINGHAM, COUNTY OF WARWICK, ENGLAND.

FASTENING FOR BRACELETS AND SCARF-RINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,636, dated May 9, 1882. Application filed August 26, 1881. (Nomodcld Patented in England January 29, 1 881- To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, ELIJAH ATKINS, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, England, have invented certain useful Improvements in Fastenings for Bracelets and Scarf-Rings, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is an edge View, partly in section, of a bracelet to which my improvement has been applied. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a section of the same, taken through the line a: m, Fig. 1, part being broken away through the line y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows the fastening locked.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to promote security in bracelet and scarf-ring fastenings.

The invention consists in a fastening for bracelets and scarf-rin gs, constructed with two stationary catches and two movable catches having outwardly 7 projecting stems, and connected and held apart by a spring interposed between them, whereby the parts of a bracelet or ring will be secnrely'fastened bypressing their ends together, and can be readily unfastened by pressing the catch-stems inward,

as will be hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, A B represent the bracelet, which is made in two parts, hinged to each other at one end. To the other end of one of the parts of the bracelet are attached two stationary catches, G, the forward ends of which are rounded, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4.. The catches 0 have notches or slots formed in their inner edges to engage with the catches D, connected with the end of the other half or part of the bracelet. The catches D consist of an angle bar or plate, having upwardly and downwardly projecting lugs a a on the outer end of its shorter arm, and a downwardly and rearwardly projecting lug, b, at its angle, and are placed within the hollow end of the part A of the bracelet, with theirlonger arms or stemsE proj eetin g through apertures in the edges of the bracelet, so that they can be operated to press the catches D inward, and thus unfasten the bracelet. The

catches D are connected by a spiral. spring, F,

being forced out of place by stops Gr, attached to the bracelet.

With this construction the bracelet is un. fastened by pressing the stems E inward, and thus disengaging the movable catches D from the stationary catches O.

I am aware that one section of a bracelet has been provided with a concave end having notched tongues which are adapted to enter openings in the tubes in the tubular end of the other section, the said tubes being pressed apart by a spring placed between them, and I therefore do not claim such; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a bracelet, the combination, with the rigid notched catches G of the part B, of the catches D, consisting of an angle bar or plate provided with plates at a. on the outer end of its shorter arm, and with the lug b at its angle, and the spring F,interposed between and connected'to the said catches between the lugs a b, arranged in the hollow end of the section A, substantially as herein shown and described.

ELIJ AH ATKINS.

Witnesses:

THOS. COPE, PERCY Home,

Both of 21 Bemwtts Hill, Birmingham, England. 

